A little bit about me

After graduating from Louisiana State University, I enjoyed a career in television news, marketing & communications and worked 9 years in business development/bid & proposal for an aerospace & defense contractor before joining the Huntsville/Madison County Chamber of Commerce as the Workforce Development Director. I also founded Susie’s Wish non-profit in 2015 which sends patients with life threatening illnesses to the beach, named in honor of our best friend and former TV news reporter Susie Edwards. Married to David, we spend our weekends filled with basketball tournaments, scary movies, and trying new restaurants with our combined family of four sons.

I’m represented by my agent Liza Fleissig, the Liza Royce Agency, with my suspense appealing to readers of The Good Girl by Mary Kubica, Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell, The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth, and The Marriage Lie by Kimberly Belle.

I’m the author of ONE NIGHT and NANNY NEEDED, published with Bantam, Penguin Random House, and the bestselling author of THE STEPDAUGHTER, as well as THE MISSING WOMAN and THE NIECE published by Bookouture, Hachette Publishing. More books to come in 2024! Announcements coming soon!

It all started when…

Being that kid who wanted to grow up to be a writer? Yup, that’s me. Hundreds of scribbled pages, head in the clouds, desk drawers filled with notebooks & floppy discs (I’m dating myself here) with tales that went on endlessly and never seemed to finish. But boy, I thought if I could get it all down on paper, they would be great. At age five, I knew I wanted to be a writer. My first book was called, Me and My Alien Friend, and I still have the copy I illustrated on construction paper.

Flash forward to high school, years of writing on loose leaf (stacks of half-finished books), working on my dad’s incredibly slow computer, and eventually my own laptop, and the writing keeps coming—a whole lot of writing. But there’s always been a problem: I could never get over the hump. Many of the stories went unfinished. Numerous works went in the delete file or were lost.

And then I discovered suspense—and it’s been a light bulb moment. I finally found my genre. Suspense is my jam and is what keeps me writing. And I have fun putting all the pieces together with twists & turns along the way.

So here’s to the wait…

And here’s to finding out if someone will buy my stories.

Because, thinking back, when I was just five, Me and my Alien Friend was only the beginning…